Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland. ... / By William Gilpin, ...
William Gilpin (1724-1804)
Category
Books
Date
1789
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256626
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., maps ; 8vo. 2 v. in 1. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Gilpin. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "2 Vols in 1". Duplicate line of text at foot of p. 16 in v. 1 crossed through and correct catchword written below in ink. Ephemera: scrap of paper with religious verse on loosely inserted at p. 16 in v. 1 (used as a marker?). Provenance: Printed booklabel on front pastedown: 'H.W. to F.F.G. 1840.' Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early nineteenth-century full calf; double blind fillet and blind roll to form an outer border on boards; sewn onto recessed cords; rebacked (twentieth century), spine entirely replaced; blind tooling on spine; red morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Gilpin on the picturesque' and 'Highlands of Scotland'; blind rolled board edges and turn-ins; brown sprinkled textblock edges; marbled endpapers; dark blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
William Gilpin (1724-1804), author Samuel Alken the Elder (London 1756 - London 1815), aquatinter